hoedown

See also: hoe-down and hoe down

English

Etymology

1835–45, Americanism; hoe +‎ down. Social gathering after work time has finished

Noun

hoedown (plural hoedowns)

1. A type of American folk or square dance.

   John and Susie went to the square dance and did the hoedown.

   • 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Soon Marshall is doing an elaborate foot-to-foot jig, and then they're all bounding around. Shoulder dips. Yee-ha faces. It's an impromptu hoedown.

2. The type of music typically played for such a dance
3. A gathering at which such dances take place.

   We have to get to the hoedown before noon, or we'll be late.

Verb

hoedown (third-person singular simple present hoedowns, present participle hoedowning, simple past and past participle hoedowned)

1. To dance a hoedown dance
   • 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph‎^[2]:

     Having spent the day in the company of this thoughtful, friendly, uncommonly levelheaded band – charmed, completely – a protective part of me sort of wishes they wouldn't hoedown

See also

• breakdown
• hoedown on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Donohew, Henwood, woodhen